Education saves money, because recidivism is much less. Save more: Adulthood could start at 16, and that high school money could be allocated to 2 years of free college. Mandatory education is inefficient. College works better because it is voluntary. Nothing really useful for skilled jobs is learned in most poor public high schools. And it is easier to get college loans after passing 2 years of free college.

"Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market, told doctors they couldn’t treat them, ... and then sent them to jail. If we did that, everyone would know we were crazy. Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs." - Billie Holiday, 1956.

The drug war is a religious war against a spiritual plant. That old-time religion, and their crusades.

Ronald Reagan, 1980 [47][48]: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass, whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example." - Reaganism: Cannabis war, trickle-down economics, code-word racism, hate radio, mass incarceration.

They estimate the cost of covering all of the roughly 40 million Americans still lacking health insurance would be equal to just about half of the $375 billion in projected savings. The balance of those savings, they write, could 'upgrade coverage for the tens of millions who are under-insured'. ... Of the total of $471 billion in BIR [billing and insurance-related costs], an estimated $375 billion—or 80 percent—is 'additional spending' that would be eliminated by 'a simplified financing system' such as single-payer, the report said.

Health insurance companies suck money from their hosts, but provide no tangible service. Just like toll-road companies. See: Toll Roads Are A Bad Idea. Both just handle the money, and take a cut of the money. They build costly buildings to house the accounting staff, and claim deniers. Costly 16-lane toll plazas are built, often on expensive urban land.

2016 election. "The Blue Wall is a block of states that no Republican Presidential candidate can realistically hope to win. ... Voter turnout was awful. It was more awful for the Democrats but the GOP won 52 percent of 35 percent of the vote: in other words their mandate is 17 percent of the registered electorate (and 13 percent of those eligible to vote)."

Education saves money, because recidivism is much less. Save more: Adulthood could start at 16, and that high school money could be allocated to 2 years of free college. Mandatory education is inefficient. College works better because it is voluntary. Nothing really useful for skilled jobs is learned in most poor public high schools. And it is easier to get college loans after passing 2 years of free college.

Millennium Marijuana March. Cannabis 2000. Alphabetical (by city) link list of reports, photos, audio, video.
The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is also known as the Million Marijuana March (MMM). GMM events worldwide are held the first Saturday in May, or thereabouts. For many photo, video, media, and report links go to the GMM and GMM links pages.

To avoid being mistakenly deleted as spam please put GMM or MMM in the subject-title of any GMM email sent to the addresses below. Also, substitute @ for "at" in the email addresses below. "at" stops spambots from harvesting addresses. Most of these email addresses from 2000 probably no longer work.

www.schmoo.co.uk/world.htm - August 8, 2000 archive. The row of nation and continent links acts as a clickable table of contents for the detailed city list in the first half of the page. See the last half of the page for many reports. The linked pages are also archived.